The Left group | |
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| Leader | Heidi Reichinnek Sören Pellmann |
| Registered | 2 February 2024 |
| Preceded by | The Left faction |
| National affiliation | Die Linke |
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| https://dielinkebt.de/ | |
The Left is a group in the German Bundestag composed of former members of the Die Linke faction. [1] The group was founded or recognized on 2 February 2024, after the official Left parliamentary group was dissolved in December 2023 due to internal conflicts. [2]
The group currently has 28 members, including Dietmar Bartsch and Gregor Gysi. [3]
The group Die Linke represents a left-wing, socialist and anti-militarist policy. It is committed to social justice, peace and environmental policy (see: Die Linke).
The Left group is in opposition. It criticizes the government's policies as antisocial, non-peaceful and harmful to the climate.
The group’s key topics include:
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The Left, commonly referred to as the Left Party, is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS, the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of former East Germany, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Since October 2024, The Left's co-chairpersons have been Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken. The party holds 28 seats out of 736 in the Bundestag, the federal legislature of Germany, having won 4.9% of votes cast in the 2021 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the second-smallest of seven in the Bundestag, and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann.
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Nicole Stephanie Gohlke is a German politician.
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Caren Nicole Lay is a German politician. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote.
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Cornelia Möhring is a German politician. Born in Hamburg, she represents The Left. Cornelia Möhring has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Schleswig-Holstein since 2009.
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Fraktion is the name given to recognized parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag. In order to form a recognized parliamentary group (Fraktion), a lesser group (Gruppe) needs at least 5% of the members of the Bundestag. As there is also a 5% election threshold, with parties over this threshold usually getting assigned more than 5% of the seats, almost all groups can nearly automatically declare themselves factions, but due to conflicts, or as a result of below-threshold access granted to regional groups, this is not always the case. Also, even a group has to have at least three members to become recognized as a Gruppe and gain more rights than the individuals have.
The Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag was the parliamentary group of the party Die Linke in the Bundestag from 2005 to 2023. It dissolved in 2023 following the Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht split.
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